Chapter xvi... a wife, though not, indeed, of the same social standing as ... to have children" or "build up a family," (Meek ... given evidence of such a disposition by prayer to the ...//christianbookshelf.org/leupold/exposition of genesis volume 1/chapter xvi.htm

Babylonia and Assyria... the Semitic languages, partly to the analogy of the human family. ... In a prayer for the Assyrian king the writer asks ... revealed to us the inner and social life of .../.../early israel and the surrounding nations/chapter vi babylonia and assyria.htm

Torrey's Topical Textbook

Genesis 12:5,8And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.Torrey's Topical Textbook